Score card



Patented June 4, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROSCOE W. UPP, OF

SCORE Application filed May 25,

My invention is particularly adapted for use as a score card at various games, such for example as golf, baseball and other sports and has for its object the production of such a card in a very simple and economical manner, that will provide means for holding a pencil in loose connection with the sheet for the convenience of those using it.

To this end my invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts herein shown and described and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings wherein like or corresponding characters indicate similar parts:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of an open score.

card illustrating the preferred form of my invention F 2 shows the same folded as shown on a central line; and

Fig. 3 is a section on line 38 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, 1 represents a score card, as shown, adapted to be folded on a central line thereof. Transverse to this central line are shown two pair of slots 3-3 enclosing a section of material 4 between them. The slots 3-3 extend through the sheet, while the ends of the enclosed material 4 are not severed but merge into the sheet itself. The result of this construction such that when the sheet is folded on the folding line 2 the material a forms loops connected to the two parts of. the sheet shown at 5 of such size as to snugly receive and retain a pencil in con nection with the sheet. Fig. 3 shows such a pencil. in dotted lines in position.

In some instances a single pair of such slots 3 may be suflicient for the purpose, although in practical use I prefer a plurality shown. The formation of these loops in no sense tends to weaken the sheet, and the ordinary use of such score cards is not suflicient to allow the loops to become worn so CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CARD.

1927. Serial No. 194,121.

that they will break and let the pencil fall.

In actual practice I have found this is most convenient in the use of score cards particularly for golf, although it is obvious that the two sides of the sheet may be prepared so as to render the device capable for use for any preferred game.

A feature of the invention is the provision of an inturned loop or a plurality thereof, in being readily understood that after the card has been folded and a pencil has been inserted in the loops, the loop or loops will thereafter tend to buckle inwardly each time the score card is folded back after a score has been entered thereon. Obviously, the pencil employed in marking up the score can then be inserted through the loop or loops readily and there is not the annoyance of having to pry the loop or loops into correct position.

In the use I have heretofore employed in these devices I have used the ordinary pasteboard or cardboard sheets in common use for these purposes, the cards being usually employed only once and then discarded. Obviously, a better grade of material could be used and the score cards used a plurality of times if desired, the same construction being adapted for such purposes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A score card comprising a sheet of paper folded along a line intermediate its ends, said score card having an inturned loop formed by cutting a pair of slots transverse to and substantially symmetrical about said line, said loop cooperating with said folded portion of said card to hold a pencil. I

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name.

ROSC'OE W. UPP. 

